Musk Warns That He Will Ban Apple Devices If OpenAI Is Integrated at Operating System Level

Reuters06-11

June 10 (Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday he would ban Apple devices at his companies if the iPhone maker integrates OpenAI at the operating system level.

"That is an unacceptable security violation," Musk, who is the CEO of electric-vehicle maker Tesla and rocket maker SpaceX and owner of social media company X, said in a post on X.

"And visitors will have to check their Apple devices at the door, where they will be stored in a Faraday cage," he said.

Apple and OpenAI did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comments.

Earlier in the day, Apple announced a slew of AI features across its apps and operating platforms and a partnership with OpenAI to bring the ChatGPT technology to its devices.

Apple said it had built AI with privacy "at the core" and it would use a combination of on-device processing and cloud computing to power those features.

"It's patently absurd that Apple isn't smart enough to make their own AI, yet is somehow capable of ensuring that OpenAI will protect your security & privacy!" Musk said on X.

At the beginning of March, Musk had sued OpenAI, which he co-founded in 2015, and its CEO Sam Altman, saying they abandoned the startup's original mission to develop AI for the benefit of humanity and not for profit.

Musk has also founded his own startup, xAI, in a bid to challenge OpenAI and build an alternative to the viral chatbot ChatGPT.

xAI was valued at $24 billion in its last funding round, where it raised $6 billion in series B funding.

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  • breAkdaWn
    06-11
    breAkdaWn
    EM is King!
  • rickerbh
    06-11
    rickerbh
    This man is a giant, drama creating baby. Why does anyone give him breathing room in the press?
  • Guavaxf30
    06-11
    Guavaxf30
     Tesla shareholders need to wake up.  Elon Musk is using the company as his personal weapon of mass destruction. He does not care for the stakeholders (shareholders or employees or suppliers or partners). He needs to go.
    • Emotional Investor: 
      Dam gua, did you actually just say that out loud. I felt a tremor in the force OBOne. Yup needs to go, agreed, cause he only cares about Elon. Was i the only one that pickedup in an interview after the last launch that it was a failure? And Elon actually didn’t answer the questions, because he didn’t know the answers. Luckily the female interviewer was more focused on getting in his pants, rather than asking follow up questions that would expose him. Crap like you for your main post, i will also beintrouble for actually speaking a truth. A truth that is is sadly lacking these days.
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